Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 2 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 3 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 4 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
| 5 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
| 6 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
| 7 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 8 | Next day I seen him down the transport club . |
| 9 | When next I chase you down the dunny , |
| 10 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 11 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I saw him down the bus station this morning . |
| 14 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 15 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 16 | I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds . |
| 17 | He dropped it and I kicked it down the alley . |
| 18 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
| 19 | I follow him down the aisle and throw random packages into the basket . |
| 20 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 21 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |
| 22 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 23 | As she set it down the T'ang stood and , reaching across , put his hand over hers , preventing her from lifting the kettle . |
| 24 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 25 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 26 | I 'd like my pink carpet up this year , cos after we had it down the electricity come and it 's a bit bobbly this part , once you 've got your |
| 27 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 28 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 29 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 30 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |